Environmentalists embrace garbage in pilot composting project - Salem News

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HAMILTON — There was a time when recycling wasn’t about saving the planet. It was about makin’ bacon. Local pig farmers used to patrol the streets once or even several times a week, collecting table scraps and other garbage they fed to their swine …

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Young farmhands - The Columbus Dispatch

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About the facility Opened in 1993, the nonprofit Stratford Ecological Center offers programming on ecology for children and adults. The facility, situated on 236 acres in Delaware, includes a certified organic farm and a wooded area with hiking …

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A growing familiarity - Arkansas Online

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LITTLE ROCK — Sustainability, local food movement, slow foods, grow-your-own and U-pick are terms used today to describe an effort to reconnect consumers to where their food comes from and encourage them to buy from growers close to home. Locally …

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TheStar.com | GTA | Green bins: A wasted effort? - Toronto Star

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The City of Toronto boasts that its green bin program diverts a third of our garbage and turns it into “black gold” compost. But a Star investigation shows that the program – although nobly conceived – is a sham. There are two problems. First …

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Calls for Sustainable Green Revolution - Inter Press Service

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KAMPALA, Jul 4 (IPS) - Africa needs a Green Revolution, but one that will increase agricultural productivity by using practices that build soil fertility while minimising harm to the environment. Organic farmers, traders and researchers from are …

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AGRICULTURE-AFRICA: Calls for Sustainable Green Revolution - Inter Press Service

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KAMPALA, Jul 4 (IPS) - Africa needs a Green Revolution, but one that will increase agricultural productivity by using practices that build soil fertility while minimising harm to the environment. Organic farmers, traders and researchers from are …

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Liberian refugees mix farming, music for rich life in Capay Valley - Sacramento Bee

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On summer evenings in the Capay Valley, the sound of West African drumming and chanting rolls across the fields and orchards, as children dance beneath a towering oak. Two years ago this month the Tarlesson family – an extended clan of Liberian …

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Liberian refugees mix farming, music for rich life in Capay Valley - Sacramento Bee

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On summer evenings in the Capay Valley, the sound of West African drumming and chanting rolls across the fields and orchards, as children dance beneath a towering oak. Two years ago this month the Tarlesson family – an extended clan of Liberian …

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Fine living: Sharing when the backyard turns bountiful - Marin Independent Journal

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Got lemons? Want peaches? Julie Hanft and Hilary Jeffris, two Mill Valley entrepreneurial moms, have taken the farm-to-table concept to a more personal level - a garden-to-garden-to-table one - with their Marin Open Garden Project. “It’s all about …

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Fine living: Sharing when the backyard turns bountiful - Marin Independent Journal

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Got lemons? Want peaches? Julie Hanft and Hilary Jeffris, two Mill Valley entrepreneurial moms, have taken the farm-to-table concept to a more personal level - a garden-to-garden-to-table one - with their Marin Open Garden Project. “It’s all about …

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